• SC's Jocassee Gorges Center open to visitors
  The new Jocassee Gorges Visitors Center has opened in the South Carolina mountains.

• SC sheriff sorry husband wrongly accused of murder
  Justin Mallory endured the nightmare of being charged with his wife's murder and the cloud that lingered over him even after a judge found him not guilty. Throughout the ordeal, he kept calling the sheriff who put him behind bars with a simple message: "Someone killed her. It wasn't me. Let's find out who it was."

• Homeland unveils immigration enforcement plan
  An overhauled federal program allowing local and state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport immigrants will focus on the most serious criminals and limit officers' police powers, the Homeland Security Department said Friday.

• NC couple gets $30,000 SC serial killer reward
  Officials have decided a Dallas, N.C., couple will get a $30,000 award for calling in the tip that led to a man who authorities say was a serial killer who shot to death five people in South Carolina.

• Police: SC man's abuse killed 10-year-old girl
  Authorities say a Spartanburg man is charged with homicide by child abuse after his girlfriend's 10-year-old daughter died.

• SC lottery official moves to Ark., will make $225K
  A South Carolina lottery official will join his former colleague in working for the Arkansas Lottery.

• 11-year-old SC boy dies when rifle discharges
  An 11-year-old South Carolina boy has died after his rifle accidentally fired as he climbed down from a hunting stand.

• SC father faces weapons charge in boy's shooting
  The father of a South Carolina boy who shot and killed his 10-year-old brother has been indicted on a federal weapons charge.

• USC trustee resigns; charged with bank fraud in NC
  The vice chairman of the University of South Carolina board of trustees, Samuel Foster II, has resigned.

• National Guard units strained by chaplain shortage
  When patriotism inspired the Rev. Jerry Fehn a decade ago to serve soldiers in combat zones abroad, the 45-year-old was afraid he had waited too long.

• SC effort urges residents to help economy
  An effort is under way in the South Carolina Lowcountry to get residents to shift some of their spending to local businesses to help the area's economy.

• SC firm gets contract to expand burial site
  The next stage of the Fort Jackson National Cemetery for veterans will be built by a South Carolina construction firm.

• Kershaw County gets $5M fed gang prevention grant
  The federal government is giving a South Carolina school system $5.7 million to help fight gangs.

• SC gov hangs on to office, 2 weeks after scandal
  South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has had a lot of indirect help holding on to office in the two weeks since his mysterious disappearance and revelations of a sultry yearlong affair with an Argentine woman.

• Residents call for SC Gov to go
  Dozens of South Carolinians gathered at the Statehouse on Thursday to rally for Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation or impeachment.

• Democrat gov hopeful McLeod raises nearly $169,000
  A South Carolina lawyer says he's raised $168,845 in his bid to win the Democratic Party's nomination for governor.

• Shriners to consider downgrade of some hospitals
  The Shriners will continue treating children in all 22 cities where they operate hospitals, but some of the facilities may be downgraded to outpatient surgical centers and the sale or lease of real estate will be explored, the nonprofit's new CEO said Thursday.

• Prosecutor to seek death in SC girl's slaying
  A South Carolina prosecutor wasted no time telling the suspect in the killing of an 8-year-old that he was seeking the death penalty.

• Man found by SC substation was electrocuted
  Authorities say a man found dead inside a fence at a Gaffney power substation was electrocuted.

• Virginia completes 'Freedmen's' project
  The end of slavery meant a kind of beginning for the family histories of many African-Americans: For the first time, the enslaved people's identities and family connections became part of a public record. And the huge task of recording that data fell to the federal Freedmen's Bureau.

• Army picks 1st woman to lead drill sergeants
  The first woman chosen by the Army to lead its school for drill sergeants said Thursday she does not expect any trouble commanding the service's toughest instructors.

• Democrat governor hopeful raises nearly $225,000
  A South Carolina state senator has raised nearly $225,00 during the second quarter in his campaign to win the Democratic nomination for governor.

• Chief fed appeals judge retires because of illness
  The chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday she is retiring because she has early onset Alzheimer's disease and doesn't want her future rulings to be questioned.

• GOP governor hopeful raises $211,000 for campaign
  Candidates for governor began releasing first glimpses at their campaign finance reports Thursday as they vie to replace Gov. Mark Sanford.

• Feds want cash, plane in contraband cigarette case
  Federal authorities want to take $1.89 million and an airplane allegedly used in a multimillion dollar scheme to sell contraband cigarettes in the Southeast.